Is your run in only one sided? I’m having trouble imagining 3 gates on a 3 sided shed, would you mind drawing it?
Not necessarily so.
My run in / stall space is the “back” portion of my barn.
Not to scale
ETA the barn itself is 30 wide 45 long
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If you’d like to gamble with $1000 or more worth of trees and a boatload of work, come right on down. I’ll provide water and shovels. 
“Evergreens should only be planted in late winter or early spring – but beware of foliage drying and “winter burn”. Unlike deciduous trees, evergreens hold onto their foliage throughout the winter, and to keep them green they need a lot of moisture. Bright sun and harsh winds in the winter months can cause the needles to lose moisture, and plant roots cannot take up enough water from the soil in frozen ground, which can cause dry foliage and “winter burn”. In newly planted trees where the root system is already too small for the canopy, this problem is made worse.”
Ah, now I understand. Thank you!
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No problem.
I have extra panels and gates so the run in side can be paneled in to also be a stall if needed. If needed, I could also move it all further in to the barn and have a run in space the full width of the barn and two stalls in front of it. I could also add a gate to the side that is currently the run in side to the side section of dry lot next to barn and run fence from corner of barn across to the edge of the dry lot that is parallel to the barn and create a stall with attached small dry lot paddock. The possibilities are endless with panels.
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All depends on how early your beans come off. There is plenty of information (and personal experience) that says even up here in zone 5, conifers can be planted in the fall. Do you want to avoid late fall? Yes. If your fall looks like it will be unseasonably dry? Also, yes, avoid.
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The evergreens are going to the north, by the road. I’m not putting a freshly planted tree through salt spray and all that other mess if I can just wait until the spring.
The pastures will be planted this year.
Oooo I just looked at the soil map for this place. It has two kinds of soils, both silty loam, and both in the top 5% for crop productivity. That bodes well for a nice pasture.
Home inspection is tomorrow, and I’m keeping fingers and toes and everything crossed that it passes.
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Has anyone ever had a propane tank moved? How did that go?
I think the answer to this question depends on why you are removing it and who actually owns it.
Are you switching to a different company or doing away with all your of the propane fired appliances?
The propane tank at my house is actually owned by the company that provides me with propane. It is not mine.
Edit to add - the propane tank not being owned by me was not my choice. None of the delivery companies would fill a tank that they did not own.
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Moved, not removed.
I want it further north, if I can.
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Sorry, I misread it to be removed.
Step 1 is to find out who owns it. The propane company will likely gladly provide you with the cost to relocated it, extend/modify the supply line, etc.
If it is yours, then all you have to worry about is finding someone qualified to extend/modify the supply line. (I doubt you would be moving it far enough that any modifications as far as size will need to be done to the supply line.)
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Yes, and there are laws and regulations around where it can be located on property depending on your area.
We had ours moved to the other side of the house so we could expand our driveway/parking area.
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Did the propane company do it? How much did it cost?
Turns out we own the tank so they charged us more. It was around 1k to get it moved, hooked up, and get the blocks that it sits on put in.
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Truth. We (my Dad actually) is in the process of enclosing two bays of my pole barn/equip shed; one is for hay and had been a planned event, the other will be for my zero turn and new “chore wheeler” so that he can have my garage back for his sweet ass Chevelle’s storage 
I want to get rid of the tacky (to me*) Harbor Freight carport tent thing I’ve been using for hay because it just looks… awful. SO* says it doesn’t look bad and “lots of people have them,” but it absolutely doesn’t fit with my freakin farm aesthetics and I’ll embrace my title of snob that I know he’s thinking. However that does mean once my enclosure is done, I bet I can easily find someone to come take it off my hands with minimal fuss. You can see my situation here plus a spoiled 30 yo who says he would like his Blue Plate Special a little earlier today, kthx.
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Here if you go through the co-op (commercial) and/or the County Cooperative Extension, not only will they help point you in the right direction for soil testing but they can also assist with recommending seed and you can rent certain equipment from the commercial coop such as seed spreaders, sprayers, etc - in fact my commercial hay guy uses them and just calls and says what he needs, they fill the sprayer with whatever he needs, fertilizer or herbicide, and he just comes and picks it up.
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Oh and if you haven’t already, I used Google’s area calculator a LOT while plotting out my facility.
https://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-area-calculator-tool.htm
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